PHP provides a number of ‘magic’ methods that allow you to do some pretty neat tricks in object oriented programming. These methods, identified by a two underscore prefix (__), function as interceptors that are automatically called when certain conditions are met. Magic methods provide some extremely useful functionality, and this tutorial will demonstrate each method’s use.
Last week, I posted an article that pretty much started with “this is not about a legal interpretation of the GPL.” Therefore, of course, 80% of the people who commented on the article did so to give me their interpretation of the GPL, or to explain why my interpretation was incorrect. So much for that.
Many sites nowdays self promote content deep within from the home page. In many ways this should be considered an internal campaign. On larger websites with multiple stakeholders involved, it becomes even more important to measure how successful internal campaigns are peforming. By default Google Analytics has the ability to track external campaign links pointing to your website, however it does
TestLink is a web based Test Management tool. The application provides Test specification, Test plans and execution, Reporting, Requirements specification and collaborate with well-known bug trackers.
Several people have asked me the same question recently, so I decided to take a blog post to provide an answer. The question is, “When will ‘Web Scraping with PHP‘ be available in print?” Answering requires a bit of background to paint a full picture of where things are now.
This week there was an interesting discussion on twitter between several people from the PHP community on the use of access modifiers, and why things should be public, protected or private, or why not. The thing that triggered this was the fact that the new Symfony2 Coding Style disallows the usage of private methods. This discussion earlier on triggered Lukas Smith to post his opinion. I comment
In my day job I work with C#. Each language has its pros and cons but I really like C#’s attributes (and the java equivalent – annotations). So when I get home and use PHP I really miss my @stuff. So…. I decided to write an implementation of attributes in PHP (with some help from the Zend Framework).
Sometimes you want to limit the bandwidth for certain ips or sites, in order to keep your traffic within limits, or to keep constant bandwidth to all users, regardless of how much they are downloading.
PHP, over the years, has evolved into a vast language with many useful functions that are overlooked. Here’s 5 functions that you have probably never used to help make your next web application easier to create.
When I said recently that we still need the Open Source Initiative (OSI), it started a flood of comment. There's no doubt that we need OSI - but we need a better OSI. The one we have now is just too small to be effective and too mired in past successes; a renaissance is needed. You can help.
PHP is a very complex language and unfortunately at times it can be quite slow. Here are some easy things you can do that can speed up your application.
10 New And Useful PHP CMS
Seems rather strange to think of NetBeans, Solaris, Glassfish… with no Sun associated. However here we are, Oracle has released its first NetBeans IDE version, 6.9. NetBeans 6.9 claims to enable rapid development and interoperability of rich internet applications (RIA) for Mobile, Desktop and Web Environments.
6 Free PHP Security & Auditing Tools. Lack of knowledge of the weakness of PHP can make a web site more prone to attacks. In our attempt to help you make your PHP site and web applications more secure, we've compiled a list of useful PHP security and auditing tools.
CodeIgniter Con 2010 is the first CodeIgniter-only conference to be held in Bristol, UK. CodeIgniter Con 2010 was created to have an event for all CI developers to further their development knowledge, network with each other and have a great time. CodeIgniter Con 2010 tickets are now available for purchase.
